Showing posts with label the fire within. Show all posts
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Friday, December 6, 2013

The Fire Within


This is an incredible book by Chris D’Lacey.
           
David is a 20 year old boy who is on college. He rented a room at the Penykettle house to work on his homework and have somewhere to stay. David finds out there are clay dragons and a lot of squirrels to help out. He discovers these clay dragons aren’t normal clay dragons. They possess a weird magical vibe. David has a lot to do living at the Pennykettle house full of mysteries with the owner Liz and her daughter Lucy.
           
David meets the owner of the house and her daughter. The owner of the house is Liz and her daughter’s name is Lucy. Liz sculpts clay dragons for herself and Lucy and for anyone who visits or she knows. Lucy is a young girl who loves squirrels. Lucy and David go on an adventure to save squirrels and figure out what happened to this squirrel named Conker. Liz and David just talk about college and how things are going and David tries to see what the deal is with the clay dragons and why they feel the way they do and what Liz’s secret is. David faces many obstacles in this book and has to figure out many different things also while working on college.
           

This book is a good book for kids and all other ages. It has a lot of mysteries and suspense here and there. I suggest this book to you if you like reading serious of books. Try and go out and buy this book or go to the library and check it out next time you want to read a book. This book has good sequels to it and all the other books are interesting as well. This book will keep you entertained hours on end and is a fun book to set back and relax and read.  


Book Review by Trace B.

Wednesday, November 6, 2013

The Fire Within

The Fire Within is a lovely little novel written by Chris D’lacey and is the first book in the last dragon chronicles. It is a mild fantasy novel that is probably suited for light easy readers, no rush or chasing, or fighting is included in this book, the next ones aren’t as friendly. But let’s focus on this book with its easily loved characters and cute but mysterious plot.    
               
This is a book about dragons made out of clay. This novel begins with a letter to Liz Pennykettle written by our main character David Rain. He explains that he is going to a nearby college and needs a place to stay and is really glad that a room was available in her home. He says he is okay with cats, good with children, but he hasn’t seen any dragons lately and didn’t know if that was a problem. Arriving at Pennykettle household he meets the cats, Liz and Lucy Pennykettle (Lucy is Liz’s daughter) and the dragons. The dragons turn out to be clay figurines made by Liz in her pottery room dubbed the Dragon Den. David gets his own dragon which he named Gadzooks (a dragon holding a pad and pencil making him a writing dragon).
               

I would recommend this book for people looking for a calm fantasy novel. But be warned that the sequels become more dramatic/action centric so it not all happy go lucky all the time. Still I enjoy the series as a whole watching as all the characters progress together till the last book, which looks really good.  


Book Review by Morgan D.